A single consistency instruction with harmful prior actions causes aligned frontier LLMs to select unsafe options at 91-98% rates in high-stakes domains, with escalation and inverse scaling by model size.
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A single consistency instruction with harmful prior actions causes aligned frontier LLMs to select unsafe options at 91-98% rates in high-stakes domains, with escalation and inverse scaling by model size.